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General Knowledge Quiz 274 (60 MCQs)

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1. Who wrote "A Room With A View", "Howard's End" and "A Passage To India" ?
2. What is the habitat of a velella?
3. What did the original name of the game now known as mahjong mean?
4. What is the name of the dark nebula in the constellation Orion that is approximately 1500 light years from Earth?
5. What colour or colours did the English national football team wear for its first away kit?
6. What theory, developed by Franz Joseph Gall, in which personality traits were determined by "reading" bumps and fissures in the skull, was once considered a science?
7. What was the name of Michael Jackson's pet chimpanzee?
8. What is the meaning of the name Jezero, chosen for a crater on Mars?
9. In which sea is the island of Barbados?
10. Why is the scarlet pimpernel, a low-growing annual plant found in Europe, Asia and North America, known as 'the poor man's barometer' and 'the poor man's weatherglass'?
11. A quadruped has four what?
12. At the 2008 Olympic Games, which event began its competition at Beijing before the Opening ceremony?
13. Pol Pot became the de facto leader of which country in mid-1975, forcing city dwellers to relocate to the countryside to work in collective farms and forced labor projects, toward a goal of "restarting civilization" in "Year Zero", which resulted in the deaths of an estimated 1.7 to 2.5 million people, approximately 21% of the population?
14. What do Anton Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen, Eugene O'Neill, Athol Fugard and Frances Boothby have in common?
15. In which film starring Bill Murray was each day the same as the one before?
16. What is the next in the series Jason Alexander, Kevin Federline ..... ?
17. How did Helen Sharman make history in 1991?
18. Which of these writers lived during the reign of Charles II?
19. Which of these processes involves using essential oils and other scented compounds for the purpose of altering a person's mood, cognitive function or health?
20. To what does the title of Jules Verne's novel, usually translated as "20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea", refer?
21. What were the titles of the first two novels by Donna Tartt?
22. What is unusual about the type of fishing called "noodling" ?
23. Spa-Francorchamps, Suzuka and Yas Marina share what in common?
24. Which of these was a city-state of ancient Mesopotamia, the remains of which are in present-day Al Hillah, Babil Province, Iraq, about 85 kilometers (55 miles) south of Baghdad?
25. Three weeks after the USSR launched the first man into space what craft did the USA launch, with its first manned space flight?
26. Who, when he retired as heavyweight boxing world champion in April 1956, was the only heavyweight champion in boxing history to retire having won every fight in his professional career?
27. In 2009 three women-an Australian, a Norwegian and a Venezuelan-created a record for the Venezuelan at Angel Falls, the highest waterfall in the world, doing what?
28. When New Zealand passed the Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975 it established what?
29. In which international games was Muaythai (Thai boxing) included for the first time?
30. Ski orienteering was last considered for inclusion in the 2018 Olympic Games and has so far been turned down. Which of these has not been published as one of the reasons?
31. In terms of latitude where does Africa lie?
32. Where did paella originate?
33. What does the Italian word "Piazza" mean?
34. Which is Earth's closest star?
35. What is the name for the negative pressure generator invented by Robert Henderson and used extensively by Phillip Drinker and Louis Agassiz Shaw?
36. Where were the Commonwealth Games held in 2014?
37. What is the name for a type of man-made well where the water is raised by natural pressure rather than pumping?
38. Which composer wrote the "Water Music" ?
39. What was the first Paréage of Andorra (1278)?
40. What film genre has a plot that takes place during a journey, which has resonances from tales of epic journeys such as the "Odyssey" and the "Aeneid" ?
41. In the book "Treasure Island", what did Ben Gunn dream of?
42. Which of the films has nothing to do with dancing?
43. According to the old saying, what "is a virtue, possess it if you can, seldom found in women and never in a man" ?
44. Ounjougou in Mali in Africa is believed to be one of the earliest regions (along with East Asia) in which what occurred?
45. Brazil is the largest country on which continent?
46. Which of these bands is not from Sweden?
47. Bezique is what kind of game?
48. What event applies to Charles II of England in 1660 and the Bourbons in 1814 and 1815?
49. What sort of creature is a lurcher?
50. Which Australian, a winner of Golden Globe, BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild and Australian Film Institute awards, became, in 2009, one of 17 people to have won an Academy Award, a Tony Award and an Emmy Award?
51. According to Cole Porter's song, who regretted not being able to come to lunch?
52. Whose 4 sons were an astronomer, a botanist, an army engineer who went on scientific explorations, and the head of a scientific instrument manufacturing company?
53. Red Gauntlet is a type of climbing what?
54. Who was the merchant sea-captain who made the first American circumnavigation of the world in 1790, and is known for trading voyages to the northern Pacific coast of North America between 1790 and 1793, which pioneered the fur trade in that region?
55. King Kamehameha V, Walter M. Gibson, Queen Liliʻuokalani, John L. Stevens, Sanford Dole and James Henderson Blount were figures in the history of which area in the late 19th century?
56. In February 2016 the king of which country switched on the first phase of what is planned to be the world's largest concentrated solar power plant when completed?
57. On which body of knowledge was the 1552 "Badianus" manuscript of botanical medicine (in various libraries in Europe but not published until early 20th century) based?
58. What is the term for the geological feature that includes Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC, Augusta and Columbus?
59. What is the name given to a class of coal that contains a high percentage of fired carbon and burns smokelessly with intense heat?
60. What is the main ingredient of "tarte tatin" ?
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